Brenden Rooney is Assistant Professor of Psychology at University College Dublin. E-mail: brendan.rooney@ucd.ie
Hanna Kubicka is a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow. She previously studied at the University of Oxford and Edinburgh Napier University. Her writing has been published in Film International, Film-Philosophy, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Film Matters, and The Oxford Student. Her research interests include emotional and affective engagement in film and television, audience research, art theory, and the intersections of neurology and film theory. E-mail: h.kubicka1@research.gla.ac.uk
Carl Plantinga is Professor of Film and Media at Calvin College. E-mail: cplantin@calvin.edu
James Kendrick is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Digital Media at Baylor University. His primary research interests are postclassical Hollywood film history, violence in the media, the films of Steven Spielberg, the horror genre, and media censorship and regulation. He has published three books, Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg (2014), Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema (2009), and Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre (2009), as well as articles in numerous academic journals. He is also the film critic for Qnetwork.com. E-mail: james_kendrick@baylor.edu
Johannes Riis is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively on film acting. E-mail: johriis@hum.ku.dk